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...Baltic German firmly ensconced in the highest circles of Nazidom: Dr. Alfred Rosenberg, Chief of the Nazi Bureau of Foreign Affairs. Dr. Rosenberg helped organize the "League of the Baltic Brotherhood" to unite the Baltic states under Nazi guidance. A weekly Das Baltikum was established to preach the word. Latvian Germans hoped that, though breaking up the great German estates was one of the original Hitlerite tenets, a Fascist state might restore the lands and prosperity they lost after the War. Latvia's little parliament, the Saeima, has only 100 members, representing some 25 parties. Dr. Rosenberg agreed with...
President Kviesis and Premier Ulmanis are both members of the Farmers Union, the party of rich farmers and landowners. German Nazis uttered not a peep in Latvia last week but in Riga beer cellars the rumor persisted that the Latvian Fascist society Katsuelit was back of the present coup d'etat and back of Katsuelit was Adolf Hitler, sponsor of Das Baltikum Nazification...
...Sigsfeld, biggest balloon in Germany. Aboard were Dr. Hermann Victor Masuch, meteorologist, and Dr. Franz Martin Schrenk, pilot. Their purpose was to rise 32,800 ft., study cosmic rays, bring glory to the Reich. Next day scientist, pilot and balloon were reported missing. Day after in Russia, near the Latvian border, was found the wreckage of the Bartsch von Sigsfeld. In it was Meteorologist Masuch, dead. Nine miles away lay Pilot Schrenk, also dead...
...Lutheran Synod of which he is president, Rev. Dr. Samuel Geiss Trexler urged formation of a Lutheran "Church of All Nations" in New York. Services would be held in English and 15 other tongues spoken by Lutherans-German, Norwegian, Swedish, Finnish, Danish, Ukrainian, Spanish. Hungarian, Slovak, Wendish, Italian, Polish, Latvian, Estonian and French...
...Walker, Manhattan's ex-Mayor James John, he says: "If he had wanted to study, he could have led the class"; quotes Jimmy's definition of a reformer: "A guy who rides through a sewer in a glass-bottomed boat." He retails the philosophy of Barney Gallant, Latvian Jew who once shared an apartment with Eugene O'Neill, later became Greenwich Village's night-club tycoon: "No isms or cults are any good. Every man should be his own Jesus...